Season 4, Episode 13 Blessings

First Aired: December 18, 1990

Flashbacks augment officers' interviews for a story about "race relations in the civil service" by a local reporter (Judith Robinson), who hears only what she wants to hear. Tibbs: Howard Rollins. Gillespie: Carroll O'Connor. Bubba: Alan Autry. Sweet: Geoffrey Thorne.

Premise: A white Southern police chief and a black detective put aside racial animosity to solve crimes in a Mississippi hamlet. This tense drama was inspired by the Oscar-winning 1967 film, which was based on John Ball's 1965 novel. Despite the occasional health-r… (more)